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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26905	The crucifying of the world by the cross of Christ with a preface to the nobles, gentlemen, and all the rich, directing them how they may be richer / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1658 (1658)	Wing B1233; ESTC R17065	262,204	331

breasts are dry which we thought would have refreshed and satisfied us When we see that the world is an empty thing a cask a picture a dream a shadow we turn away from it and look no more after it but look for content in something else As a child that seeth a painted Apple may be eager of it till he try that it is favourless and then he careth for it no more or if a beautiful crab deceive him when he hath set his teeth in it he casteth it away So when a Christian findeth the folly of his former expectations and tasteth the vexation of the creature which he was so greedy of and withall is acquainted by a lively faith where he may be better away go all his expectations from the world and he promiseth himself no more content or satisfaction in it This is a notable part of Mortification As it is the Hopes of some Good that sets men awork in all endeavours so take down their Hopes and all the wheels of the soul stand still If it were not for Hope we say the heart would break And therefore when all our Hopes from the world are dead the very Heart of the old man is broken and all his worldly motions cease Then he saith It s as good sit still as labour for nothing I despair of ever having contentment in the creature I see it will not pacifie my conscience it will not save me from the wrath to come it will do nothing for me that is worthy my regard and therefore let it go I will follow it no further It shall have my heart no more Before he had many a promising delightful thought of the creatures which he could not reach He thought with himself If I were but thus placed and settled once if I had but this or that which I want if I were but here or there where I would be if I had but the favour of such or such an one how happy were I how well should I be I would then be content and seek no more But when faith hath mortified us to the world we see that all these were foolish dreams we knew not what it was that we Hoped for and then we give up all such Hopes for ever Such pleasing thoughts of any worldly thing while you want it or of any place or Condition which you are absent from and such promises and hopes from any worldly state or person or thing doth manifest that so far you are alive to the world and is a folly of the same nature with theirs that Idolize the world when they do enjoy it For one man to say If I had this or that I were well and for another that hath it to say Now I am well Soul take thy Rest do both shew the same Estimation and Idolatrous Love to the world in their hearts though one of them have the thing which he loves and the other hath it not And to be so pleased with the very fancy and conceits of those worldly things which they never had seems worse then to be pleased with it when they have it I pray you lay this well to heart that I say to you Despair utter Despair of ever being contented or well in the world or made happy by the world in whole or in part is the very life of Christian Mortification It is the nature of a Carnal heart to keep up his worldly Hopes as long as possibly he can If you beat him from one thing he runs to another and if he despair of that he looks after a third and thus he will wander from creature to creature till Grace convert him or Judgement condemn him If he find that one friend faileth him he hopes another will prove more faithfull and if that prove a broken reed he will rest upon a third If he have been crost in his Hopes of worldly contentment once or twice or ten times or an hundred times yet he is in Hope that some other way may hit and some more comfort he may find at last But when God hath opened a mans eyes to see that the whole world is Vanity and Vexation and that if he had it all it would do him no Good at all and that it is a meer deceitful empty thing and when a man is brought to a full and finall Desparation of ever finding in the world the Good that he expected then and not till then is he Crucified to the world and then he can let it go and care not and then he will betake himself in good earnest to look after that which will not deceive him When a worldling is in utmost poverty or in prison he may part with all his worldly contentment at the present but this is not to be Crucified to the world For still he keeps up his former estimation of it and Love to it and some Hope perhaps that yet it may be better with him Yea if he should Despair of ever being Happy in the world if this proceed not from his Disesteem of it and the change of his Affections but meerly because he would have the world but sees he cannot this is far from the nature of true mortification 4. If we are Crucified to the world our Delight in it is Crucified It seemeth not to us a matter of such worth as to be fit for our Delight Children are glad of toyes which a wise man hath no pleasure in To have too sweet contentful thoughts in the creature and to apprehend it as our Good and to be rejoyced in it is a sign that so far we are not Crucified to it It is not able to Glad a mortified heart so far as it is mortified though the Love of God that is manifested by it may make him glad And this is it that Paul disclaimeth in my Text God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of Christ. If he were the Lord of all the honours or wealth of the world he would not Glory in them If he had all the Pleasures that the flesh can desire he would not glory in them If he had the common applause of all men and every one spoke well of him if he had all things about him suited to a carnal hearts content yet would he not glory in it No more then a grave and learned man would glory that he had found a counter or a pin Ier. 9 23. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that gloryeth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord that exercise loving kindness judgement and righteousness on the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord. Jer. 4. 2. The Nations shall bless themselves in him and in him shall they glory Isa. 41. 16. Thou shalt rejoyce in the Lord and glory in the holy one of Israel Isa. 45. 25. In the Lord shall all

devour widows houses after all their preaching and praying there is none that are more cruel and close handed or ready to over-reach or deceive then they nor any that are more greedy for the things of the world In answer to this Objection I shall first say somewhat to the Professors of Religion and then shall speak to the objecters themselves First you that profess the fear of God take notice I beseech you of this accusation and though it may shew you cause to pitty malicious slanderers yet let it provoke you to search your hearts and lives and see that you give not cause for this reproach As for those worldly time-serving hypocrites which in all places creep in among the Saints and do but serve themselves of Christ let them know that God will one day require an account at their hands of all these scandals which they have caused in the Church and the ruine of poor ungodly souls that are dasht in pieces and cast themselves into hell by stumbling at this stone which their worldly practises have laid before them If you would needs be worldlings you were better have kept in the world among worldlings then to have crept into the Church of Christ and brought thither your scandalous worldly lives to the dishonour of that Religion which condemneth your practises and you Did not Christ warn you to count your costs and never to dream of being his Disciples unless you could forsake all and follow him under the Cross in expectation of a promised treasure in Heaven ●s there any thing that Christ did more peremptorily require of you then to Renounce the world and deny your selves if you would be his Disciples And yet will you come without this wedding garment and bring your base and earthly minds among his servants and cause his truth and his house and followers to bear the reproach of your worldly baseness I tell you it is like to cost you dear that you have cast this dishonour on the name of God and caused the damnation of the impious reproachers The wrong you have done to God and men you shall certainly pay for in everlasting misery unless a through repentance do prevent it And I fear it is but few of these worldly Hypocrites that ever truly do repent But wo● to them by whom offence cometh It were good for that man that he had never been born 2. And as for you that truly fear God I beseech you let the slanders of wicked men awake you to an holy jealousie of your selves You see what their eye is upon Take heed then how you walk you hear what it is that offendeth them As far as is possible avoid all occasions of such offence Take heed in your bargaining buying or selling how you carry your selves toward them and what you say If all the actions of your lives were right save one they will reproach you for that one If you speak but one rash or unhandsom word they will forget all the rest and remember that one and traduce you as if all were like that one See therefore that you walk and speak by line and rule And remember that it is not an ordinary measure of charity and good works that is expected from you according to your abilities by God and man If you love those that love you what Reward have you do not even the Publicans the same And if ye salu●e your brethren only what do you more then others do not even the Publicans so But saith Christ I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despightfully use you and persecute you That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust Mat. 5. 44 45 46 47. Let your Light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Mat. 6. 15. Your actions and words are observed and scanned more then any other mens For malice is quick-sighted and of a strong memory And you are the Light of the world A City that is set on an hill cannot be hid Mat. 5. 14. Take heed therefore that you be blameless and harmless the Sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse Nation among whom ye shine as lights in the world holding forth the word of life This will not only stop the mouthes of the enemies but it will also rejoyce your Teachers in the day of Christ that they have not run or laboured in vain Yea if they were offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith they would rejoyce with you all Phil. 2. 15 16 17. And for your selves also it is necessary that you excell others in good works For except your righteousness exceed the righteousness even of Scribes and Pharisees you shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven Mat. 5. 20. Remember that you live among the blind and if you stumble and fall you know not how many will fall upon you and if you break but your shins they that fall upon you may break their necks and if you rise again you are not sure that they will rise Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims in this world abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest among the Gentiles the unbelievers and prophane that whereas they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they behold glorifie God in the day of visitation 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 15. Finally brethren be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another love as brethren be pittiful be curteous not rendring evil for evil or railing for railing but contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing 1 Pet. 3. 8 9. And so walk that if any obey not the word they may yet be won by your exemplary conversation 1 Pet. 3. 1. As you hear more then others so do more then others that it may appear you build upon a rock Mat. 7. 24 25. And as the book of God is much in your hands and mouth so remember that whoso looketh into the perfect Law of liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the work this man shall be blessed in his deed For Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep your selves unspotted from the world Iam. 1. 25 27. 2. Having said this much to the godly by way of caution I shall now make answer to the Objecters themselves You that say There are none so cruel and so covetous as these that